Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim called the NCAA’s formula “completely nuts” last year in USA Today:

Boeheim said because basketball teams have small rosters, it takes only two or three players “who do the wrong thing” to put a team under a 925 cutoff. He said coaches and schools can do little to force student-athletes whose eligibility is up to go to class.

“Any good school can have a bad class and fall below,” Boeheim said. “It’s a lot more difficult than it looks. What looks to be simple on paper isn’t as simple as it looks. If three guys leave (school) and your other seven guys are ‘A’ students, that still puts you below. It’s hard to recover from that.”

Boeheim argues students leaving early for the NBA hurts the team’s academic standing. NCAA officials say the formula takes that into account. Even if Boeheim is right, he’s admitting his team is a basketball factory that has little to do with academics.

Instead of talking about student athletes who have no intention of graduating and the programs that pretend to care, we’re talking about our brackets.

That’s not Fab. That’s sad.

– Brooks Landing is hot. Students, residents and businesses are making their home in the redeveloped area. A new highrise student apartment building is planned.

– Why can’t our City Hall have crises like this? Trenton, N.J. is in a dispute with its toilet paper supplier. The health department may have to shut down toilet paper-less public buildings as a result.

6 Responses to SU’s Problem (It Isn’t Fab)

You want our City Hall to run out of toilet paper? You think it would be a good thing? I would think as a journalist the last thing you would want to deal with is public officials who are even more full of crap than usual!

It should go by g.p.a. anyways regaurdless of ncaa they should have a certain g.p.a. to maintain thier scholarship shouldnt they? And maybe a penalty if they leave school early for the n.b.a. then payback your scholarship … it shouldnt be on team average IMO

Isn’t college supposed to be a way to receive training/education to start a career? When athletes leave early they’ve gotten what they needed to get from college as far as I’m concerned.

If they are in position to make the move to the pros, there is no reason to hang around and risk injury and potentially giving up more money students in other disciplines wont see in an entire lifetime.

If education is important they can always go back and earn that degree.

Maybe if the NCAA wasn’t the minor leagues for the NBA and NFL it wouldnt be a problem. I also agree that if a guy is good enough to go why should you or I question it? Why should it penalize the rest of the guys who are staying?